Rear Sway Bar Diameter?

Dwight Walhood · #1 10-12-2009, 04:30 PM

I've got a R56 MCS w/Sport pac. Anybody know what the diameter of the rear sway bar is? Just curious, as my dealer didn't know. That's par for them!

lilgrasshopper · #2 10-12-2009, 04:33 PM

17mm?

wildcrazy442000 · #3 10-12-2009, 05:49 PM

18mm

thevelourfog · #4 10-12-2009, 06:11 PM

Yup sport suspension is 23.5 mm front and 18 mm rear bar.

Dwight Walhood · #5 10-12-2009, 07:43 PM

Thanks, guys. Appreciate the info. Now I'll have to find something else to be curious about!

Robin Casady · #6 10-12-2009, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dwight Walhood

Thanks, guys. Appreciate the info. Now I'll have to find something else to be curious about!

You could be curious about the purpose of the groove in the storage area in the driver's side door.

Dwight Walhood · #7 10-12-2009, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Robin Casady

You could be curious about the purpose of the groove in the storage area in the driver's side door.

Hey, you know, I've been.................

:nod :

e30r56 · #8 10-12-2009, 08:04 PM

I believe that slot is for mail.

Robin Casady · #9 10-13-2009, 03:13 PM

Some bright boy (don't recall who) figured out that it is for the antenna when you go to a car wash, or park in a vandal-prone neighborhood.

Of course, many of us have switched to stubbies...

thevelourfog · #10 10-13-2009, 03:32 PM

Last time I parked on the street in Koreatown in LA my stubby antenna got stolen, so I can see the reason for having a slot for an antenna... But the stock antenna? That thing is do damn ugly would anyone really steal it? I think if this one gets stolen I'm just gonna plug up the hole and call it a day.

drewstermalloy · #11 10-13-2009, 03:33 PM

CD's fit fairly well in there, until the car starts moving.

Robin Casady · #12 10-13-2009, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by thevelourfog

Last time I parked on the street in Koreatown in LA my stubby antenna got stolen, so I can see the reason for having a slot for an antenna... But the stock antenna? That thing is do damn ugly would anyone really steal it? I think if this one gets stolen I'm just gonna plug up the hole and call it a day.

There is no accounting for taste among Vandals, or Visigoths for that matter.

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Originally Posted by drewstermalloy

CD's fit fairly well in there, until the car starts moving.

Might be a good place to keep one's swagger stick.

lilgrasshopper · #13 10-13-2009, 05:16 PM

Just on a side note....After swaybar install...do you need to get the car re-aligned?

slinger688 · #14 10-13-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by lilgrasshopper

Just on a side note....After swaybar install...do you need to get the car re-aligned?

Generally, you do not need to realign after installing the rear sway bar.

thevelourfog · #15 10-14-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Robin Casady

There is no accounting for taste among Vandals, or Visigoths for that matter.

Historical humor, always a laugh riot! But they could have done worse than just taking the antenna I guess (I suspect if I park in K-Town again, I'll find my car resting on CMU blocks instead of wheels or the emblems pried off with a crowbar). As John Julius Norwich said, 'they had behaved like brigands certainly, but not on this occasion like vandals.'